The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.

Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.

Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.

For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or in fighting vice they may have in fact been fighting virtue.

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.